I can't put to words how the last three minutes of Jimi's playing make me feel. Imagine something like a baby's first cry or an intense psychedelic experience. Nothing else compares.
I was 16 when the Newport Pop Festival opened like a multifaceted steel flower. I was blessed to be a flower child at a time like no other. The irony is, I was tripping on an LSD called Blue Cheer whilst rocking to Blue Cheer!
Jimi transcends to another level with his guitar playing this sunny Sunday afternoon at Devonshire Downs. Only the truly blessed were able to witness this historic performance.
I put a Tele neck on my Strat body a few years back in homage to this concert. .They're not interchangeable though. The Tele has a square heel whereas the Strat has a rounded one. I had to chisel some wood away to get the Tele neck to fit. Still a badass mod.
Brother,I was at that concert,I was 18 at the time and what a show it was.Some Hells Angels couldn't see the stage so he blew a couple of rounds with his side arm and everyone started to run.That God no one was hurt.but what a night(day).Thanks for the memories👍😎🎸
You only get that wailing tone through sheer volume, driving power amp tubes and pushing LOTS of air. Modern PA systems killed that. I bet he was louder than a Slayer concert here. A modern day sound guy would murder you if you were this loud. Modern PAs are great in terms of providing a clear mix for listeners, but they ruined the heyday of cranking oldschool rock guitar.
'After Jimi returned, our next date (June 20) was the Newport Pop Festival, Devonshire, outside L.A. God, what a tricky gig. It was the first gig, I think, where we were apparently being paid giant wads of cash. One gig, 45 minutes and the guarantee was well over a hundred grand. We knew this and it was obviously on our minds-not that it was obscene, just a bit odd. I remember the gig, we got there about 9 o'clock, got on about eleven, having spent a couple of hours in the caravan with an even greater number of hangers-on. I don't know, but I think someone spiked Jimi or maybe he'd taken something of his own and then someone had spiked him on top of that. It was a disaster. I kept thinking, this is weird-all this money. It was almost like, how much per minute am I getting? So that, plus Hendrix's stste, added up to a terrible performance. Absolutely awful, we were devastated, it was one of the worst gigs we ever played. On the drive back to L.A. Jimi decided to go back, bless his heart, to play again. Not for any money or anything, just because he felt he wanted to make up for it. I didn't, not sure why, I just didn't want to visit the site again. Anyway, Jimi went back on the Sunday and jammed with various people including Buddy Miles. He did the right thing as a musician. I wish I'd done it as well.' “The Hendrix Experience”, Mitch Mitchell and John Platt, 1990, at pp136&137
I was there for 3 days! Jimi appeared Friday night. Arrived in 3 white limos. My friend & I crawled to front of stage when everyone stood up. It was Wild! Looking for film on the Friday night show. Think this is a video from Sundays performance.
You know I think the guys at the front wouldn't be able to see shit with that big wall their right in front of them they are so close to it that they can't see over it.
I was there, about 30 feet from the stage. It was so very hot on that summer afternoon. Still buzzing from a heavy acid dose the other day from a bota bag of wine I was handed during the Saturday show.
@Jimi Hendrix, I saw Mr. Albert King, Albert Collins (The Iceman & Master of the Telecaster), Mr. Buddy Guy, I missed Muddy Waters... They are all close in my mind and heart to Jimi, Do go and see Buddy Guy, but do not cry out Jimi, because He was doing this before Jimi as was Mr. Albert King and Jimi learned lots from them all. Yet when JIMI played their music, He always said that he was going to play, for instance John Lee Hooker. I saw Him as also I also have scene BB KIng a few times but for me He is on a brilliant level of His own, ( I don't hear his sound in Jimi's music). Although I love Lucille... I have scene other guitarists that Jimi learned from also... Albert King was is my favorite after Jimi, If only I could find recording of the second shows he played. I could see and hear why Jimi wanted to play Guitar with Him so very much !!!! How ironic it is that I feel that I missed the Master of all time !
I wish Leo fender could have seen this. Could you imagine him with a Floyd Rose ? Not that he needed it, but tuning wise it would be even more awesome. But Jimi took the limitations of the PA, amps, and guitars and blew minds anyway
fukyocheapassguitars I suspect it was a "hybrid" of a strat and a tele, put together by Jimi's guitar tech from pieces of guitars he smashed while on tour.
Gotta Thank Crossharp!!!! I have this CD and this is at the end of a song called The Things I Used To Do..... But the song ends too early (:40) on the solo on the CD... Thank You Again Crossharp for giving me the chance to hear the rest of the solo!!!!!!!
a musical concert is a beautiful thing, a talented individual who produces music can let the world they are playing in a place and many people will gather round to marvel at a constructive moment of sonic beauty, of course this statement relies on whatever exactly and supposed exactly 'beauty' is
was there, but missed Jimi (when did he play?)...went manly to see Led Zeppelin (who I did see)...also remember Buddy Rich and BB King, and some group called Black Rose (I think)....next month to Woodstock: Janis, The Who, etc (though left Sunday, so missed Jimi again)...the next week saw LZ in Framingham, MA at a small theater-in-the-round called the Carousel Theater...they really blew the house (or tent) down that night!....
Not much customising needed. It's normally very easy to mix and match Fender bodies and necks. I don't know why Jimi had a Tele neck on a Strat body on this occasion.
he need more Fender Showman Amps.....and HDTV....... brings trears to face,,,,,,, James Marshall and Buddie........at their "near" best ..history......
For the first 3 minutes of watching this does anyone else get the idea that Jimi could have done whatever the hell he wanted to do with a guitar to make it sound like what he was thinking?.I almost think he almost invented the electric Guitar!.............:D
I really think Hendrix didn't even START to do what he REALLY wanted to do with his music until much later in his career. The Electric Ladyland album and the Band Of Gypsys was only the mere beginning of what he was capable of musically. I believe I've heard him say in some interviews that he actually started to hate his first two albums. Or at least certain parts of it. I think because he had a lack of true musical freedom and a lack of time to unleash it. He really toured hard in the early days. (he hadn't slept for 3 days when he performed at Woodstock) God knows what he was truly capable of.
Beny Matos I think you're right. I heard that he was the highest paid musician in the world and was getting tired of being bossed around and ripped off by his shady manager, Michael Jeffrery, and was going to fire him and start the next chapter in his music. You can guess what happened next.
+Beny Matos Intelligence and survival are not the same thing, what people consider "geniuses" are people as likely or more likely to be self destructive.
This is the jamm session Jimi instigated after one of the worst Experience concerts the day before. Jimi felt he needed to make up for it, so he showed back up, and who would say no? Then i think all the musicians wanted a part in it, especially after hearing Jimi tearing it up so killer.
I'm surprised that so many of us that were there, A are still around;-) B remember it:-) I only remember trying to Transit through a sea of people and I think Creedence Clearwater, not much else
Bob Arthur from Middle Earth band sat in to play bass. It was more of a jam than a heavy, JHE set list that would have required either Noel Redding or Billy Cox.
Diggerdog2nd jimi was jamin with about 15 other musicians two saxophonists on voodoo child and a mouth organist female vocalists etcetera.he was already doing the big band sound that everybody said he was going to do in the future after he died.
Yes but I was just pointing out that this gig is not with his band. He only did the big band thing at Woodstock then quickly scaled it down before just going back to a 3 piece. He tried a lot of different things. Had he lived he probably would have continued doing the same thing. Who knows ?
Diggerdog2nd hendrix definitely did the big band thing at newport i have seen the footage as per my original reply.the band he used at woodstock was smaller.the band members at newport were not ont the stage at all times
ester farneda Jimi Hendrix was the pioneer of the modern rock guitar sound . He was pushing the blues into another direction . Of course they wouldn't approve if it . I'm sure they don't care for EVH or anyone that isn't a blues purist .
'After Jimi returned, our next date (June 20) was the Newport Pop Festival, Devonshire, outside L.A. God, what a tricky gig. It was the first gig, I think, where we were apparently being paid giant wads of cash. One gig, 45 minutes and the guarantee was well over a hundred grand. We knew this and it was obviously on our minds-not that it was obscene, just a bit odd. I remember the gig, we got there about 9 o'clock, got on about eleven, having spent a couple of hours in the caravan with an even greater number of hangers-on. I don't know, but I think someone spiked Jimi or maybe he'd taken something of his own and then someone had spiked him on top of that. It was a disaster. I kept thinking, this is weird-all this money. It was almost like, how much per minute am I getting? So that, plus Hendrix's stste, added up to a terrible performance. Absolutely awful, we were devastated, it was one of the worst gigs we ever played. On the drive back to L.A. Jimi decided to go back, bless his heart, to play again. Not for any money or anything, just because he felt he wanted to make up for it. I didn't, not sure why, I just didn't want to visit the site again. Anyway, Jimi went back on the Sunday and jammed with various people including Buddy Miles. He did the right thing as a musician. I wish I'd done it as well.' “The Hendrix Experience”, Mitch Mitchell and John Platt, 1990, at pp. 136&137
I was there, the best summer of my life!!!!!
same here. No one could believe what Jimi was doing
I can't put to words how the last three minutes of Jimi's playing make me feel. Imagine something like a baby's first cry or an intense psychedelic experience. Nothing else compares.
I was 16 when the Newport Pop Festival opened like a multifaceted steel flower. I was blessed to be a flower child at a time like no other. The irony is, I was tripping on an LSD called Blue Cheer whilst rocking to Blue Cheer!
I was there on June 21st zoned on LSD. I drove up from Long Beach in my VW van. Hot and dusty. Tons of bands.
I turned 14 yrs old seeing Jimi on this day 6-22-69. Thanks Jimi!
There's still no one this good to this day. The greatest ever!
Jimi transcends to another level with his guitar playing this sunny Sunday afternoon at Devonshire Downs. Only the truly blessed were able to witness this historic performance.
"All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel." -Jimi Hendrix. ~♥~
Jimi & Buddie Spirit On 🔥 Lives Forever❤
I put a Tele neck on my Strat body a few years back in homage to this concert. .They're not interchangeable though. The Tele has a square heel whereas the Strat has a rounded one. I had to chisel some wood away to get the Tele neck to fit. Still a badass mod.
WOW... what just happened? Looking for my Hendrix Lps right now!
Brother,I was at that concert,I was 18 at the time and what a show it was.Some Hells Angels couldn't see the stage so he blew a couple of rounds with his side arm and everyone started to run.That God no one was hurt.but what a night(day).Thanks for the memories👍😎🎸
Check out the awesome Lee Oskar of WAR fame 7:38.
best song of all time rn
DAMN!!!!!!!Jimi was playing his ass off at that concert,DAMN!!!!!
man the way he makes that guitar scream
Wow ,,look at the face, the body language ,this isnt dancing ,like the shadows ,This is music from the soul ,from the god within ,pure genius !!!
no one makes a guitar wail like that
correct
You only get that wailing tone through sheer volume, driving power amp tubes and pushing LOTS of air. Modern PA systems killed that. I bet he was louder than a Slayer concert here. A modern day sound guy would murder you if you were this loud. Modern PAs are great in terms of providing a clear mix for listeners, but they ruined the heyday of cranking oldschool rock guitar.
'After Jimi returned, our next date (June 20) was the Newport Pop Festival, Devonshire, outside L.A. God, what a tricky gig. It was the first gig, I think, where we were apparently being paid giant wads of cash. One gig, 45 minutes and the guarantee was well over a hundred grand. We knew this and it was obviously on our minds-not that it was obscene, just a bit odd. I remember the gig, we got there about 9 o'clock, got on about eleven, having spent a couple of hours in the caravan with an even greater number of hangers-on. I don't know, but I think someone spiked Jimi or maybe he'd taken something of his own and then someone had spiked him on top of that. It was a disaster. I kept thinking, this is weird-all this money. It was almost like, how much per minute am I getting? So that, plus Hendrix's stste, added up to a terrible performance. Absolutely awful, we were devastated, it was one of the worst gigs we ever played. On the drive back to L.A. Jimi decided to go back, bless his heart, to play again. Not for any money or anything, just because he felt he wanted to make up for it. I didn't, not sure why, I just didn't want to visit the site again. Anyway, Jimi went back on the Sunday and jammed with various people including Buddy Miles. He did the right thing as a musician. I wish I'd done it as well.'
“The Hendrix Experience”, Mitch Mitchell and John Platt, 1990, at pp136&137
He Is the Master
I was there for 3 days! Jimi appeared Friday night. Arrived in 3 white limos. My friend & I crawled to front of stage when everyone stood up. It was Wild! Looking for film on the Friday night show. Think this is a video from Sundays performance.
Wow thank you so much for uploading this and part 2. So cool
top shelf Hendrix!!
The guy at the beginning who was trying to get on stage, he just wanted to be closer to God. That's all.
actually, he was just trying in vain to get his parking validated.
Love that, a genuine LOL moment, thanks.
You know I think the guys at the front wouldn't be able to see shit with that big wall their right in front of them they are so close to it that they can't see over it.
Serious notes being played made up right on the spot.Riffing the whalingness blues this side of Alpha Centuri.
I was there, about 30 feet from the stage. It was so very hot on that summer afternoon. Still buzzing from a heavy acid dose the other day from a bota bag of wine I was handed during the Saturday show.
Timothy Polsfoot you can see the same wine skin (I'm assuming) it in part 2 of this video hell yeah
The best version of this song I ever heard!
so, where I can find the complete lyrics? I know this video since 10 years ago and nothing
@Jimi Hendrix, I saw Mr. Albert King, Albert Collins (The Iceman & Master of the Telecaster), Mr. Buddy Guy, I missed Muddy Waters... They are all close in my mind and heart to Jimi,
Do go and see Buddy Guy, but do not cry out Jimi, because He was doing this before Jimi as was Mr. Albert King and Jimi learned lots from them all.
Yet when JIMI played their music, He always said that he was going to play, for instance John Lee Hooker.
I saw Him as also
I also have scene BB KIng a few times but for me He is on a brilliant level of His own, ( I don't hear his sound in Jimi's music). Although I love Lucille...
I have scene other guitarists that Jimi learned from also...
Albert King was is my favorite after Jimi, If only I could find recording of the second shows he played.
I could see and hear why Jimi wanted to play Guitar with Him so very much !!!!
How ironic it is that I feel that I missed the Master of all time !
:17-:39 ....Randy Hansen trying to climb on stage....
I was there that day and the night before running spotlight.
wonder if we will ever see this footage in its entirety one day?
Dude got his damn face melted laying on that amp at 2:10....whats up!
I wish Leo fender could have seen this. Could you imagine him with a Floyd Rose ? Not that he needed it, but tuning wise it would be even more awesome. But Jimi took the limitations of the PA, amps, and guitars and blew minds anyway
Anyone else notice the telecaster neck on a strat body? Interesting.
fukyocheapassguitars Yeah i noticed that too.
fukyocheapassguitars Yeah i noticed that too.
+fukyocheapassguitars Good eye, dang strange
people are still putting tele necks on strats mistakenly thinking "wow this is so cool and unique!"
fukyocheapassguitars I suspect it was a "hybrid" of a strat and a tele, put together by Jimi's guitar tech from pieces of guitars he smashed while on tour.
HENDRIX FOREVER!!!!!!!!! I LOVER I LOVER!!!!!
Jimi Hendrix der Zauberer und Magier fasziniert immer wieder
Hendrix ist so gut.Für mich der Größte.
Gotta Thank Crossharp!!!! I have this CD and this is at the end of a song called The Things I Used To Do..... But the song ends too early (:40) on the solo on the CD... Thank You Again Crossharp for giving me the chance to hear the rest of the solo!!!!!!!
a musical concert is a beautiful thing, a talented individual who produces music can let the world they are playing in a place and many people will gather round to marvel at a constructive moment of sonic beauty, of course this statement relies on whatever exactly and supposed exactly 'beauty' is
I got a brief flashback as the camera panned over to a group of people dancing the hip shake thing like in the olden daze.
Well the opening was pretty riveting!
1:30 The moral of the story is that when anybody plays that well it doesn't matter how loud it is.
was there, but missed Jimi (when did he play?)...went manly to see Led Zeppelin (who I did see)...also remember Buddy Rich and BB King, and some group called Black Rose (I think)....next month to Woodstock: Janis, The Who, etc (though left Sunday, so missed Jimi again)...the next week saw LZ in Framingham, MA at a small theater-in-the-round called the Carousel Theater...they really blew the house (or tent) down that night!....
MAGNIFICOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
buddy is a showboat extreme
Not much customising needed. It's normally very easy to mix and match Fender bodies and necks.
I don't know why Jimi had a Tele neck on a Strat body on this occasion.
literally a god
The neck of this Strat is out of Telecaster?! =o
he need more Fender Showman Amps.....and HDTV.......
brings trears to face,,,,,,,
James Marshall and Buddie........at their "near" best
..history......
Stevie's up there with Jimi. The 2 greatest guitarists period
Nice. Do you have footage of Jethro Tull's appearance there?
For the first 3 minutes of watching this does anyone else get the idea that Jimi could have done whatever the hell he wanted to do with a guitar to make it sound like what he was thinking?.I almost think he almost invented the electric Guitar!.............:D
Johan you nailed what I think.I totally agree with what you have said.PERFECT!
I really think Hendrix didn't even START to do what he REALLY wanted to do with his music until much later in his career. The Electric Ladyland album and the Band Of Gypsys was only the mere beginning of what he was capable of musically. I believe I've heard him say in some interviews that he actually started to hate his first two albums. Or at least certain parts of it. I think because he had a lack of true musical freedom and a lack of time to unleash it. He really toured hard in the early days. (he hadn't slept for 3 days when he performed at Woodstock) God knows what he was truly capable of.
Beny Matos I think you're right. I heard that he was the highest paid musician in the world and was getting tired of being bossed around and ripped off by his shady manager, Michael Jeffrery, and was going to fire him and start the next chapter in his music. You can guess what happened next.
+Beny Matos Intelligence and survival are not the same thing, what people consider "geniuses" are people as likely or more likely to be self destructive.
***** All I'm saying is that I don't think he killed himself bro.
is that a tele neck on a strat body in Jimi's magic hands?
Yes , never seen it used at any other concert.
Check the Guitar! Fender Strat Body with a Tele Neck!
Like the fact that the strats got a tele neck on it! Was Jimi the first to od this on a strat????
This is the jamm session Jimi instigated after one of the worst Experience concerts the day before. Jimi felt he needed to make up for it, so he showed back up, and who would say no? Then i think all the musicians wanted a part in it, especially after hearing Jimi tearing it up so killer.
I see. That explains it!
Muito massa!:-)
I'm surprised that so many of us that were there, A are still around;-) B remember it:-) I only remember trying to Transit through a sea of people and I think Creedence Clearwater, not much else
7:51 - Do the Hippy Shimmy, future bond traders!
Bob Arthur from Middle Earth band sat in to play bass. It was more of a jam than a heavy, JHE set list that would have required either Noel Redding or Billy Cox.
Buddy's vocals tho
can you tell me the name of the songs they perfomed?
@@iagoribeiro4940 it was basically a giant jam but he was singing "the sky is crying" by elmore james
At 2:10 the guy back left starts to feel Jimi melting his face
Jimi is onstage with Buddy Miles band. That's not Billy Cox on bass & I don't recognize any other guys.
Diggerdog2nd jimi was jamin with about 15 other musicians two saxophonists on voodoo child and a mouth organist female vocalists etcetera.he was already doing the big band sound that everybody said he was going to do in the future after he died.
Yes but I was just pointing out that this gig is not with his band. He only did the big band thing at Woodstock then quickly scaled it down before just going back to a 3 piece. He tried a lot of different things. Had he lived he probably would have continued doing the same thing. Who knows ?
Diggerdog2nd hendrix definitely did the big band thing at newport i have seen the footage as per my original reply.the band he used at woodstock was smaller.the band members at newport were not ont the stage at all times
is that Harvey Brooks on bass?
9:30 plainclothes policemen
2:23 is that john lennon?
Almost Band of Gypsys . Wonder where Billy was.
2 things, 1-jimi is god, 2-people in the 60's couldn't do pull ups
Miles D. was very jealous in those days..
sasha king crimson 💻💻💻💻
Jimi was a blues player man. He was mostly known for his blues playing.
Janie is lurking
Time codes suck...who put it there, it's not on the original film...
J S Bach in second gear.
not. of. this. world.
dead at 27 years of age....
Murdered via "The celebrity overdose"..........Marilyn Monroe also....worth more dead than alive.
As far as a live performance goes by Jimi, this definitely not his best!
Doido tentando subir no palcokkkkk
Who is the bass player?
Billy Cox
That's a white guy on bass not black Billy Cox. In The 50's, Everyone Is Happy
In The 50's, Everyone Is Happy your profile picture and profile name are so contradictory
HaHaHa ha
Loses something with the barely audible rhythm section.
Not a fan of this lineup,Buddy Miles' drumming does not suit Jimi
what the fuck was that all about?
who is this guy,,,,,
50 years ago.....
has to be fake.......wink
The first song name is "Loud guitar overplaying shit noise". Real bluesmen would not approve this blues assassination.
ester farneda.....Jimi playing anything is superior to ALL the rest....cheer up, you'll get over it.
Jimi + Strat = #1.
You sound like somone who lacks innovation and probabaly never made it in music cuzz of your lack of creativity... i feel sorry for you man
All the real Bluesman put Hendrix at the top in regard to his Blues rock infusion. go and have a lie down and a good nights sleep.
ester farneda lmaooooooo theese details are insane you sound like you smoke a oz of crack everyday
ester farneda
Jimi Hendrix was the pioneer of the modern rock guitar sound . He was pushing the blues into another direction . Of course they wouldn't approve if it .
I'm sure they don't care for EVH or anyone that isn't a blues purist .
Sounds Horrible!!!
'After Jimi returned, our next date (June 20) was the Newport Pop Festival, Devonshire, outside L.A. God, what a tricky gig. It was the first gig, I think, where we were apparently being paid giant wads of cash. One gig, 45 minutes and the guarantee was well over a hundred grand. We knew this and it was obviously on our minds-not that it was obscene, just a bit odd. I remember the gig, we got there about 9 o'clock, got on about eleven, having spent a couple of hours in the caravan with an even greater number of hangers-on. I don't know, but I think someone spiked Jimi or maybe he'd taken something of his own and then someone had spiked him on top of that. It was a disaster. I kept thinking, this is weird-all this money. It was almost like, how much per minute am I getting? So that, plus Hendrix's stste, added up to a terrible performance. Absolutely awful, we were devastated, it was one of the worst gigs we ever played. On the drive back to L.A. Jimi decided to go back, bless his heart, to play again. Not for any money or anything, just because he felt he wanted to make up for it. I didn't, not sure why, I just didn't want to visit the site again. Anyway, Jimi went back on the Sunday and jammed with various people including Buddy Miles. He did the right thing as a musician. I wish I'd done it as well.'
“The Hendrix Experience”, Mitch Mitchell and John Platt, 1990, at pp. 136&137
Mitch Mitchell seems like such a stand up guy, insanely talented yet had very little ego and just played his part so well